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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Rt. Rev. Robert C. Wright, 10th Bishop of Atlanta, spoke recently with Dennis O’Hayer of NPR affiliate <a href="http://wabe.org/">WABE</a>.</p>
<p>Wright discussed his role as the first African American bishop of Atlanta, the Episcopal Church’s rite for blessing same-sex couples, the gospel (“The issue of God is the most to me; “I think we’ve got to talk about God more”), racial profiling and decriminalizing traffic offenses, and Georgia’s proposed personhood amendment, which he supports, while also “respecting people’s right to choose.”</p>
<p>“As someone who was adopted personally and as someone who has adopted, I am grateful, in a profound way, that … my mother, my biological mother, brought me to term, and gave me the opportunity to live the life that I have lived,” he said. “I am grateful to God for that.”</p>
<p>The bishop said the personhood amendment also should shape Georgians’ thinking about the death penalty and care for the elderly.</p>
<p>The interview appears in two parts, and in both cases the station offers a broadcast version and an expanded version. Part One is <a href="http://wabe.org/post/conversation-atlantas-new-episcopal-bishop-robert-wright-part-1">here</a>. Part Two is <a href="http://wabe.org/post/conversation-atlantas-new-episcopal-bishop-robert-wright-part-2">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>Dennis O’Hayer interviews Bishop Robert C. Wright at his diocesan office. Photo by Don Plummer/Diocese of Atlanta</em></p>
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